Stories by Robin Martin

The New Plymouth District Council has missed out on tens of thousands of dollars after it failed to collect rent from the country's largest concrete supplier - for 30 years.

Taranaki landowners with undetonated seismic survey explosives on their properties face 10 years of monitoring and restrictions on land use.

A Taranaki farmer is involved in a tense stand-off with Shell after refusing to let the oil giant set off seismic surveying explosives on his land.

A paid parking trial has been a "disaster" for a New Plymouth cafe owner who says it has cost her thousands and led to staff layoffs. Audio

A dilapidated sign in an overgrown section on the outskirts of Waitara is the only hint to the significance of Te Kohia pā.

Two police officers ran for cover as a gunman opened fire on them near Whanganui last August, a court has been told.

Taranaki has turned a new page in one of New Zealand's most bitter and long-running land disputes.

A proposed local bill designed to allow leasees to freehold the land under their homes is racist, a leaseholders' representative says.

Three Taranaki men have been sentenced for causing the death of a Hawera grandmother described as the glue that held her family together.

Half of raw milk producers will be forced out of business by new regulations, says the Raw Milk Producers Association.

The organisers of WOMAD have secured a deal guaranteeing the world music festival will return to Taranaki for the next three years.

Tramping groups fear a review of Department of Conservation tracks and huts could mean some routes are closed or left to third parties to maintain. Video

The Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) says the police fleeing driver policy needs to be amended in the wake of another death after a pursuit.

A recovery programme to help save one of New Zealand's rarest birds has now established a sustainable population in Taranaki. Video

A vehicle with a Hollywood pedigree has been the star of Americarna 2016, which wraps up in New Plymouth today.

Taranaki Regional Council is investigating a complaint that surveying explosives have been laid metres away from a farm's principal water source.

Exploratory drilling for oil and gas has ground to a halt in New Zealand amid low oil prices.

A silent hikoi in New Plymouth today followed the footsteps of prisoners taken during the sacking of Parihaka in 1881.

The Department of Conservation is looking at ways to ease chronic overcrowding on the Tongariro Crossing, including a "sister crossing" in Taranaki.

The oil and gas industry has an unlikely ally in its support for the introduction of buffer zones around its Taranaki installations.

Proposed buffer zones around rural industries - including oil and gas facilities - amount to a council-approved land grab, Taranaki farmers say.

Chow down on a Big Mac anywhere in Australasia and there's a good chance the cheese in that burger came from the tiny Taranaki township of Eltham. Audio

Dozens of volcanic river boulders, each weighing hundreds of kilos, are being transformed into works of fine art in New Plymouth this month.

A veteran Black Power member has been offered an olive branch by a Maori trust that previously wanted to evict him from land it owns in Taranaki.

A Taranaki farmworker accused of murdering his son told police he had enjoyed spending some of over $78,000 transferred by the younger man into his account. Audio